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Alice Merry Woodwark (1832-1906) was the wife of the founder of the William Notman photographic studio in Montreal. A native of Nailsworth, England, Alice married William Notman in Paisley, Scotland in June 1853.

In November 1856, Alice immigrated to Canada to join her husband who had been living in Montreal since August of that year. She arrived on board the ship S.S. Canadian in the company of her 16-month-old daughter Frances Elizabeth.

Mrs. William Notman was widowed in 1891. Suffering from bronchial pneumonia, she died in Montreal on January 2, 1906, at age 74. She is buried in the Mount Royal Cemetery.

Alice Richenda Notman was the family's fourth child. At age 17, Alice succumbed to typhoid fever. She was the second daughter of the family to die, after Frances Elizabeth.